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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

A year later

It's been one year since I started this blog. One year and three days to be precise. I went back to my sketchbooks from around that time and found a couple of pages that caught my eye and never made it to the blog. They somehow represent a little of what the blog has become: sketches of everyday life — like the animals I sketched at Petco one day we went to check out fish tanks and some cool chairs at a Scandinavian furniture store — and drawings for my son like this one where he's a firefighter putting out a fire. To celebrate the anniversary I also decided to give the blog a little flag update. I hope to change the flag often (ever since I saw the changing mastheads that Tommy Kane comes up with I've wanted to try something like that. My apologies for stealing the idea Tommy!)Ya ha pasado un año desde que empecé este blog. Un año y tres días exactamente. He estado mirando algunos cuadernos de dibujos de por aquellas fechas y he encontrado un par de páginas que me han llamado la atención y que nunca puse aquí. Representan un poco de lo que caracteriza a este blog: dibujos del día a día — como los animales que dibujé en Petco un día que fuimos a mirar peceras, o las sillas en una tienda de mobiliario escandinavo — y dibujos para Alex, como éste con él de bombero apagando un fuego. Para celebrar el aniversario del blog también he decidido actualizar la cabecera. Espero cambiarla a menudo (desde que vi las cabeceras que pone Tommy Kane en su blog siempre he tenido ganas de intentar algo parecido. Mis disculpas por robarte la idea Tommy!)

6 comments:

How cool would it be to be able to send an illustrator out instead of a photographer to cover some event? I think it would transform the mundane. Of course, a good photographer will also go beyond the literal translation ....

thank you, this blogging thing keeps getting better and better! so much fun.

jim, that's my dream job (to cover an event as an illustrator) and hope to figure out a way to do it soon (hint: hire me to do that will you?). check out the work of Olivier Kugler, a regular contributor to The Guardian, who travels the world and draws: http://www.olivierkugler.com/